Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Robin,
> Your work on this app is amazing! I've shown it to a couple of my 
> coworkers and their jaws dropped! I really like the output showing which 
> words were used; that is very helpful. I was wondering about how 
> non-techie teachers can upload their target word lists or a redirect to 
> a web page or text file on the network for processing. For example, some 
> of our teachers here have a weekly word list, simple text, on the 
> network. Do you have any plans or ideas on how to redirect the target 
> search list to another file? With or instead of the AWL, another list 
> that is in simple text? It's really a very cool little piece of coding 
> here! What are your plans for licensing? GPL? LGPL?
> all the best!
Thanks for the compliment! The licence is the same as for most Perl 
scripts (i.e. the Perl/artistic licence). In other words, do what you 
like with it.  The source code is at 
<http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/awlcheck.tar.gz>. (Note that for 
copyright reasons, the AWL sublists are not included - see the README).

As for changing the word lists, you'll need to upload the lists yourself 
and hack the code a little. There are some variables at the beginning of 
the script which need to be altered for what you want. I suppose in 
theory you could point the list variables to files on another site using 
LWP's get function, and add a field to the front page for people to put 
in the URL of the file, but it would be a bit of a headache. However, if 
you only want to compare the texts to the GSL and one list of your 
choice, you could then simplify the code somewhat, which might speed it 
up a little.

Robin

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Robin Turner
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